New ALICE management: Kai Schweda (centre), Andrea Dainese (left) and Anthony Timmins (right). (Image: CERN)
ALICE enters the new year with a new management team, ready to steer the collaboration through a key period of detector operation, data analysis and major upgrades. From 1 January 2026 onward, Kai Schweda, senior scientist at the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, has assumed the role of ALICE spokesperson, succeeding Marco van Leeuwen. Elected by the ALICE Collaboration Board, Kai will lead the collaboration for the next three years. Kai comes to the position after serving as ALICE deputy spokesperson for the last three years. The new management team also includes deputy spokespersons Andrea Dainese, research director at INFN Padova, Italy, and Anthony Robert Timmins, professor at the University of Houston, Texas, USA.
The team will have new challenges ahead of them in terms of efficient Run 3 data taking in 2026, Run 3 data analysis, publication of new results, LS3 activities and, most crucially, upgrading ALICE to the next level: the next-generation ALICE 3 experiment for LHC Run 5.
